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Bad and complex architectureBad and complex architecturePosted Jul 30, 2009 21:54 UTC (Thu) by astrand (guest, #4908)In reply to: Bad and complex architecture by sbergman27 Parent article: Google releases Neatx NX server
I'm sorry to hear that you feel "annoyed", it was certainly not my intent. I'm writing this in my spare time, as a private individual. Cendio is not paying my LWN subscription. I don't think that one needs to present themself before writing in this forum. Nor should it be necessary to include disclaimers of type "this is my personal opinion and not my employers".
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Bad and complex architecture Posted Jul 30, 2009 22:37 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
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I'm writing this in my spare time, as a private individual... """
... with a direct and substantial financial interest in discrediting the competition. And if you were to let people know about your direct and substantial financial interest up front you would have less credibility when doing it.
Who it is who pays for your LWN subscription, and whether it happens to be during business hours or not is completely beside the point.
And when such clear conflict of interest exists, it *is* customary to declare such.
disclaimers Posted Jul 31, 2009 0:47 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]
Well it certainly is customary to declare a pecuniary interest upfront, but I would not have thought that diminished one's credibility. Indeed it has been most enlightening on occasion when, for instance, openly-declared vmware hackers have weighed in on the subject of virtual machine internals in the context of a discussion of several competing free vm implementations.
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